Surface of the block has been inked and prepared with white.
Engraved block after Doré, with a design for an illustration for Gargantua et Pantagruel, created for Doré's 1873 illustrated edition of the collected works of François Rabelais (Oeuvres. Paris : Garnier Frères, 1873, v. 2, p. 197).
Signed within the block: G Doré; Daupar.
Library also owns the original electrotype printing block created from this wood block. See: PML 128507.211.
Block inscribed on the reverse with the number "728".
Engraved design shows Pantagruel and a group of male figures reclining against a wall, with a bearded monk kneeling before them.